Pretty Ricky is billed as the state’s largest boar, weighing in at 1,200 pounds. He draws crowds all day long in the State Fair’s Swine Barn, west of the Coliseum.
As son-in-law Jake noted: Pretty…
While most people at the fair are looking left and right, trying to decide what to eat next or which building to enter, there always are some who are wandering around distracted, barely avoiding the…
Most of us come to the fair to eat, play, people watch and eat. Thousands more work here, cooking (mostly frying) the food we eat, explaining why solar energy is a good thing and collecting…
Radio star and author Garrison Keillor hosts his “A Prairie Home Companion” show from the State Fair Grandstand tonight, and he appeared at noon in Carousel Park to answer questions and talk with Minnesota Public Radio host…
A bull being unloaded at the State Fair became spooked and escaped its handlers Friday morning. It ran about a block, head-butted a fire hydrant, and died.
No one else was injured in the 9:15 a.m. incident.
The victim was…
Dave Johnston of Andover has a great sales pitch for the New German Towels, those bright yellow synthetic towels that everyone seems to be carrying.
He’s got a spot in the Merchandise Mart, and when I wander by…
Not that healthy eating is a big part of anyone’s State Fair agenda, but some of the vendors are starting to actually think about it, even if we don’t.
John Brewer, a reporter for the Pioneer Press…
Today is Walt Spidahl’s 88th birthday, and we’re really hoping that he gets to spend the day at the Fair, as he has for most of the past 60 years.
Speedy, as he’s known, started coming to…
Way on the northwest corner of the fairgrounds, inside Heritage Square, is the well-kept, informative and very clean Minnesota Newspaper Museum.
I don’t think the point is that newspapers are antiques — although some days, don’t we wonder?…
The daily parade through the fairgrounds starts at 2 p.m. and wends its way from the Haunted House, north on Cosgrove, west on Randall and south on Underwood. It’s very popular and most days there’s a huge crowd…
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